The score is primarily intended to be used for study purposes and for keeping a check on the overall performance. Those wishing to exploit all the given posibilities of obtaining a "more elaborate" form of instrumentation will naturally want to arrange their "personal" scores and parts by making appropriate markings or delations.

This collection of pedal exercises is intended above all for organ students of school age. The study of pedal organ should start after at least two years of manual study and appropriate preparation at the piano.

For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the JAZZ PLAY ALONG SERIES is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. INCLUDES: All Blues • Blue in Green • Four • Half Nelson • Milestones • Nardis • Seven Steps to Heaven • So What • Solar • Tune Up.

Essential Practice Material for all intermediate to advanced flautists. The complete daily exercises with flautsts world-wide use in their daily practice, now in one volume. Based on the established French School techniques plus plenty of hints, tips and original studies by Trevor Wye. Including warm-ups, scale and arpeggio exercises over the full compass, a section concentrating on the third octave and a definitive collection of popular daily studies. Complete with Practice Card to plan out your time.

The classic guitar has ascended to an "uncontested prominence in the musical galaxy" as expressed by the eminent guitarist, Andres Segovia. The recognized position of the clasic guitar in today's music world has resulted from the devotion to the instrument and the brilliant works written for it by prominent composer - guitarists through the centuries, headed by Fernando Sor and achieved world wide recognition have attested to the power and effectiveness of the classic guitar, like Alirio Diaz, Julian Bream and Manuel Gayol.

Metallica is an extraordinary thrash band. Widely regarded as the "Beatles of speed metal", they are, by far, the most ambitious, inventive and musically satisfying proponents of the genre. In their vision, the possibillities for englargement and elaboration of the heavy metal medium have been more than glimpsed, they have become practically codified, attaining a contemporary "classic" significance while providing virtually everyone else presently active in the style with a model of how it's done. Emerging in the early 1980's, they rapidly assumed thr status of achetype, following the release of their second album, Ride the Lightning, in 1984.

Now for the first time ever, all musicians can play and study nearly every note Pat Metheny has ever written in this amazing new book that he deems his most exciting project since (his) first album. Over a decade in the making and done with Metheny's intense involvement every step of the way, the Pat Metheny Songbook is a complete collection of this genius guitarist/composer's songs from the recording of Bright Size Life in 1975 to today. This comprehensive tribute includes compositions from all of his solo records, group records, collaborations with Lyle Mays and others, and more - 167 songs in total in its more than 400 pages! The compositions are presented in lead sheet arrangements, enabling all musicians unprecedented access to Metheny's music. Also includes a two-page time line of Pat Metheny milestones; an introduction from the editors; a table of contents which lists the songs and their composer credits; a biography; a complete full-color discography including album covers, musician credits and Metheny's commentary; plus his thoughts on composing, improvising, developing a unique style; and more. This long-awaited, landmark release is absolutely essential for all Metheny fans!

For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: • Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: • An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. Includes 10 songs: Alright, Okay, You Win • Cherokee (Indian Love Song) • I'll Be Seeing You • I've Heard That Song Before • Jump, Jive An' Wail • On the Sunny Side of the Street • Route 66 • Sentimental Journey • Seven Come Eleven • What's New?

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young wind player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the third volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Skillful Studies (Volume 2) - 44005028-44005036

This is the second volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and introduces the concept of phrasing by suggesting suitable breathing point and takes the player into new keys with extended instrumental ranges. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Super Studies (Volume 3) - 44005082-44005090

This is the second volume in a progressive series of three study books that takes the young player from beginner to accomplished musician. It is carefully tailored for each instrument and focuses on exercises aimed to improve specific technical and musical demands of the instruments. Also available: Starter Studies (Volume 1) - 44004898-44004907; Super Studies (Volume 3) - 44005082-44005090

Finally available in DVD format, Seymour Fink's renowned Mastering Piano Technique sets pianists of every skill level free to express their most musical ideas with a holistic approach to the keyboard based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and movement and musical purpose. In this invaluable resource for pianists and teachers, Professor Fink explains his groundbreaking ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises. 86 minutes. Professor Seymour Fink, retired senior piano professor in the Department of Music, University of New York at Binghamton, has made a lifetime study of piano technique and its pedagogy. An active solo and chamber pianist, Professor Fink gives numerous master classes and lecture demonstrations on piano teaching and technical development. He brings to this study a wealth of European and American educational experience, worldwide travel and observation of the pianistic scene, and more than 35 years of piano teaching experience.

For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with: Melody cue with proper style and inflection • Professional rhythm tracks • Choruses for soloing • Removable bass part • Removable piano part. FOR PERFORMANCE, each tune also has: An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) • Additional choruses for soloing. Includes: Apple Core • A Ballad • Festive Minor • Five Brothers • Line for Lyons • Nights at the Turntable • North Atlantic Run • Song for Strayhorn • Walkin' Shoes.

Learning to solo has never been easier or more affordable. The dynamic Soloing Series offers the essential elements every soloist needs. Each DVD runs approximately 40-50 minutes and comes complete with an accompanying booklet showing examples in notation and tablature. Each DVD is filled with rock-solid information from beginning to end. In this DVD, Barrett, a GIT instructor since 1987, will take you through a step-by-step demonstration of techniques such as bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and vibrato. He breaks down and shows how to count out solo structures and how to connect phrases into memorable musical statements. Barrett presents an incredible in-depth study of classic rock guitar soloing. In a number of demonstrations, he is accompanied by rhythm tracks that allow the viewer to play along. Packed with licks and practice ideas, this DVD will help develop your ear and continue to improve your soloing for months and years to come.

Schirmer Performance Editions are designed for piano students and their teachers as well as for professional pianists. Pedagogical in nature, these editions offer insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering, and historical and stylistic commentary. Prepared by renowned artists/teachers, these publications provide an accurate, well-informed score resource for pianists. Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife Clara Wieck Schumann established a household centered almost entirely around music and their children. Inspired by his home life, which helped provide him with a mental stability that he struggled all his life to maintain, Schumann wrote a great deal of Hausmusik: modest, everyday music to be practiced and performed in the home. His first foray into this kind of literature, the Album for the Young, Op. 68, remains his most admired, even to this day.

A thorough presentation of rhythms commonly found in contemporary music, including 68 harmonized melodies and 42 rhythm exercises. This highly respected and popular book is also an excellent source for duets, sight-reading and chord studies. The cassette features a complete jazz ensemble including lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, and drums.

An effective two-level method for recorder instruction and a contemporary approach to instrumental learning. The student books include complete introductory materials suitable for instructional use with Baroque and German-style recorders. The Level I book includes a helpful play-along record that encourages study and practice. For general music class teaching, the basic student materials are supplemented by a special teacher's classroom cassette.

introduction
let's take a look at the recorder
it's easy to get a tone!
fingering
your first note - B
silent beats are called rests
your second note - A
repeat signs
measures and bar lines
let's play some different rhythms
your third note - G
it's fun to read music
let's play G, A, B
practise themes
reading standard music notation
time signature
let's play some notes using notation
adding the new note - C
the tie
let's play a duet
a new note - D
playing smoothly - "legato" and slurs
calypso - duet
eight notes
the note F
let's learn to play staccato
pick-up notes
the dotted quarter note
two new notes - E and D
let's improvise!
using more notes to improvise
a new note - low C
chords
using broken chords to accompany the voice
1st and 2nd endings
chord accompanimentfor sweet betsy from pike
a new note - B flat
a new time signature 6/8
a new note - F#
D.S. and D.C.
kawa - an african answer song
dynamics
C - alla breve or cut time
the nutcracker suite
fingering chart
meter signature

The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series.

This collection features some of the most famous and intriguing classical themes from the worlds of orchestral music and opera. The piano duet format is an excellent way to explore this music without convening an entire orchestra! It would be very helpful to study an orchestral recording prior to learning one of these arrangements. That listening experience will be priceless as you interpret these settings at the piano.I have fond memories of duet playing from my student days. I loved getting together with a friend and making music. So much can be learned from this collaborative experience... and it's a lot of fun!Phillip Keveren, a multi-talented keyboard artist and composer, has composed original works in a variety of genres from piano solo to symphonic orchestra. Mr. Keveren gives frequent concerts and workshops for teachers and their students in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Keveren holds a B.M. in composition from California State University Northridge and a M.M. in composition from the University of Southern California.

CD Sheet Music(TM) is the revolutionary series of masterworks on CD- or DVD-ROM that transforms a PC or MAC computer into a virtual music library. Now you can quickly locate, view and print the great works of the classical repertoire. Compared to traditional printed sheet music or music downloads, it is incredibly inexpensive. Original sources are out-of-copyright standard editions from publishers such as Breitkopf and Härtel, C.F. Peters, G. Schirmer, Carl Fischer, G. Ricordi, Durand and many others. The discs also include biographical and analytical information from Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1911 Edition. This package includes Album for the Young, Scenes from Childhood, Papillons, the sonatas, and more. 800+ pages of music.

CD Sheet Music(TM) is the revolutionary series of masterworks on CD- or DVD-ROM that transforms a PC or MAC computer into a virtual music library. Now you can quickly locate, view and print the great works of the classical repertoire. Compared to traditional printed sheet music or music downloads, it is incredibly inexpensive. Original sources are out-of-copyright standard editions from publishers such as Breitkopf and Härtel, C.F. Peters, G. Schirmer, Carl Fischer, G. Ricordi, Durand and many others. The discs also include biographical and analytical information from Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1911 Edition. This volume includes Grieg's Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and his four-hand piano music. 1600+ pages of music.

Mikołaj Górceki was born in 1971. In 1990 he started to study composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice under Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. In 1995 he graduated from his studies with distinction and a year later wa granted a double scholarship by The Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. In 2000 he received a doctor's degree in composition at Indiana University in Bloomington in the United States. In 2001 - 2002 he lectured at the McGill University in Montreal. At present he is living and working in the USA.

The Jazz Play Along Series is the Ultimate learning tool for all Jazz Musicians. With this volume, learn to play along with 10 of the best Jazz Standards. Using the CD of professional rhythm and backing tracks; with unimposing and musician friendly lead sheets and melody cues, this is an easy going and enjoyable method.

In addition, an advancement in technology has enabled the split-track CD allowing you to play with a full stereo accompaniment or remove various elements from the mix such as the bass or piano parts! Now it is even easier than before to start playing jazz either for study or performance.

For use with all Bb, Eb and C instruments, the Jazz Play Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before.

For study, each tune includes a split track with: melody cue with proper style and inflection; professional rhythm tracks; choruses for soloing; removable bass and piano parts.

For performance, each tune also has: an additional full-stereo accompaniment track (no melody) and additional choruses for soloing.

Volume 63: Classical Jazz includes some of the greatest classical melodies arranged in a jazz style.

This progressive new series is intended to enable the developing pianist to cross the often artificial 'border' between classical and popular music. Most of the pieces are in a popular idiom, but a classical spirit of framework can also be recognized in much of the music.

This collection of flute parts taken from J. S Bach's cantatas and oratorios will provide the flutist with adequate material for study and practical purposes, access to which has hitherto been difficult. The selected material covers four volumes, three intended for transverse flute and one for recorder. In odd cases a note will be found appended to passages the instrumentation of which is subject to dispute. Reconstructions of doubtful sources as well as works erroneously ascribed to J. S. Bach have not been included in the collection. A large number of pieces, above all obbligato aria parts, are reproduced in their unabridged form and distinguished by the sign O. Other passages appear in the nature of excerpts which are suitable for gaining an insight into the musical character of the passage in question, or for use as material to prepare sections likely to present technical difficulty.

This collection of flute parts taken from J. S Bach's cantatas and oratorios will provide the flutist with adequate material for study and practical purposes, access to which has hitherto been difficult. The selected material covers four volumes, three intended for transverse flute and one for recorder. In odd cases a note will be found appended to passages the instrumentation of which is subject to dispute. Reconstructions of doubtful sources as well as works erroneously ascribed to J. S. Bach have not been included in the collection. A large number of pieces, above all obbligato aria parts, are reproduced in their unabridged form and distinguished by the sign O. Other passages appear in the nature of excerpts which are suitable for gaining an insight into the musical character of the passage in question, or for use as material to prepare sections likely to present technical difficulty.

Of the numerous works written for violin, the "75 Etudes melodiques et progressives" op. 36 of Mazas (French violinist and composer of violin music, 1782 - 1849) undoubtedly occupy a position of eminent importance.The 57 exercises, popularly known as "Etudes specials" and "Etudes brillantes" constitute together with the classical studies of Kreutzer and Rode ideal material for purposes of violin study.

Play guitar along with David Bowie in this useful package, with lyrics, music and a specially-recorded CD to help you recreate the essential Bowie sound. Songs include 'Fame', 'Rebel Rebel', 'Ziggy Stardust' and 'Heroes'.The CD contains two specially recorded backing tracks of each song. The first is a full demo with guitar, showing you how it should sound, and a backing for vocals. The second is a backing track without guitar for you to play along with on your guitar. Both versions are without vocals and have instrumental cues so you can sing along too, with or without guitar.

A variety of different bowings are introduced so that the pupil learns how to use and become familiar with every part of the bow. Every exercise and piece introduced in this book is designed to improve some aspect of technique. Violinists will also enjoy playing these melodies, which with their attractive piano accompaniments and violin duet parts, have been carefully selected to give pleasure at any stage.

As it is impossible to fix a limit to which the player may go wituh the prescription of subjective times and musical terms in works of this kind, the publisher preferred not to alter the original notation of Liszt's transposition of these 6 preludes and fugues by Seb. Bach and thus to imitate Liszt who acted similary with regard to the original form. He was further determined to do so by the idea that musicians and sufficiently prepared amateurs prefer plunging into the study of such compositions without having undergone any previous influence.

This edition fo Franz Schubert's three song cycles "Die schöne Mullerin", "Winterreise" and "Schwanengesang" offers the results of a through study of the sources in conjunction with experience gathered in concert halls throughout the world. The editord encountered great difficultied in revising "Die schöne Mullerin". Schubert's autograph is considered lost; only no. 15, "Eifersucht und Stolz", exists in manuscript. The autograph transcriptions of nos. 7, 8 and 9 used by Max Freidländer in his revised edition, and describes in his critical notes, have disappeared. The first edition issued 1824 by Sauer and Leidsdorf, Vienna, reveals numerous errors.